Living Well

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Salt Lake City-based company has agreed to pay refunds to consumers who purchased its weight-loss tablets to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed its advertising slogan, "Eat All You Want & Still Lose Weight," was dece…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama said Thursday that the U.S. has undergone a "culture change" in the five years since she started raising awareness about childhood obesity. But as she celebrated achievements on multiple fronts, the first lady also…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Congress should launch an investigation into what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is doing to prevent additional superbug infections after a deadly outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital linked to tainted medical scopes, a lawm…

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has not done enough to investigate and control a deadly new MERS virus that has killed hundreds of people there and remains in many ways a mystery, United Nations health experts said on Monday. Cases o…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A tax on sugary drinks and snacks is one way a government panel of nutrition experts thinks Americans can be coaxed into eating better. Some members of Congress are already pushing back on the idea, saying the panel has oversteppe…

By Andrew Callus PARIS (Reuters) - Olivier Brandicourt, the Paris-educated doctor and head of Bayer AG's healthcare arm who is widely tipped as the new boss of Sanofi , comes with the right scientific and cultural pedigree but faces some daunting cor…

Researchers said Monday they had pinpointed two compounds -- one naturally derived from fasting and intensive exercise -- that show promise for combatting arthritis, multiple sclerosis, gout and other auto-immune diseases.

Britain might reduce welfare benefits for people who refuse treatment for obesity or drug and alcohol problems, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday. He said that if his Conservative Party wins national elections in May, he would set up a r…

Social media are turning Saudis into "electronic potatoes" and contributing to unhealthy lifestyles which leave one in four at risk of suffering a heart attack over the next decade, experts said Friday.

(Reuters) - The following is a glimpse at the lives of three Muslim students who were shot dead near the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill on Tuesday after a dispute over parking, an incident that police are investigating as a possib…

By Chris Arsenault ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new digital mapping system will help aid groups respond more quickly when earthquakes strike, a U.N. official said on Wednesday. The Automatic Disaster Analysis and Mapping system (ADAM) pulls…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With rampant diabetes and obesity, Mississippi and West Virginia have struggled with health crises. Yet when it comes to getting children vaccinated, these states don't mess around.

The BBC asks students at Leeds University for their reactions to a Labour pledge to reduce tuition fees in England have been a "disaster" and promises Labour would fund a reduction by cutting tax relief on high earners' pensions.

BBC Earth Videos

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Business

Twitter Inc and law enforcement authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network's co-founder and other employees, the company said in reaction to media reports. "Our security team is inv…

(Reuters) - British inflation may rebound more sharply than many people think if economic growth picks up, according to the most accurate forecaster in Reuters Polls on 2014 UK economic data. If that were to happen, the Bank of England may raise int…

(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co said it would buy Wi-Fi network gear maker Aruba Networks Inc for about $2.7 billion (1.7 billion pounds) in cash. The offer of $24.67 per share is a premium of 34.4 percent to Aruba's close on Feb. 24. A possible deal…

Shut out of debt markets and faced with a steep fall in tax revenues, Athens is expected to run out of cash by the middle or end of March. "We have alternatives to address the liquidity issues in March," said the official, who spoke on condition of…

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Conservatives would double the planned number of cut-price new homes available to first-time buyers if re-elected, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday in a bid to woo voters ahead of a close na…

By Sam Forgione NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, the billionaire chief executive officer and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway , told CNBC on Monday that Berkshire executives Ajit Jain and Greg Abel were not angling for the top Berkshire job. In Be…

LONDON (AP) — The 19-country eurozone got a double dose of mildly positive economic news Monday that will likely be met with relief by the European Central Bank's policymakers as they prepare to hold their next meeting on the Mediterranean island…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Dallas-based Kosmos Energy said Monday its exploration well off the coast of the disputed Western Sahara territory has not yielded a commercial find and will be plugged, though the search would continue.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday that Moscow and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine must implement a ceasefire or face consequences that could hit Russia's economy. Kerry told a news con…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday there had been some progress in talks with Iran on its nuclear programme but there was "a long way to go and the clock is ticking". He also voiced concern about the possibility of selective leaks abou…

The world's richest person got even richer this year. Forbes says that Bill Gates's net worth rose to $79.2 billion in 2015 from $76 billion last year. That put him at the top of the magazine's list of ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin misinterpreted a lot of what Washington was doing and trying to do in Ukraine. "We are trying to uphold international law with respect to the sovereignty and inte…

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Monday that the European Union's investment programme did not preclude the need for budget consolidation. Speaking at a conference of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Berlin, Juncker sai…

Rules to prevent bonuses from encouraging excessive risk taking at banks should not be extended to junior staff and put Britain out on a regulatory limb, a British government minister said on Monday. European Union rules on banker pay that are applie…

By Nigel Stephenson LONDON (Reuters) - European shares slipped from seven-year highs on Monday, weighed down by merger activity in the telecoms sector, while Asian stocks edged up after China cut interest rates at the weekend. The dollar hit an 11-y…

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top equity index briefly touched a new record high on Monday before turning negative as commodity stocks weakened. The blue-chip FTSE 100 equity index rose as much as 0.3 percent to a record intraday hi…

By Christopher Johnson LONDON (Reuters) - Brent crude oil fell almost 2 percent towards $61 (39 pounds) a barrel on Monday after Iran said a deal on its nuclear programme could be agreed this week if the West lifted sanctions, which could boost the…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday of being obsessed by allegations of Israeli abuses and said the United States would defend Israel against efforts to isolate it. In a speech to the Council in Geneva,…

A deal on Iran's nuclear programme could be concluded this week if the United States and other Western countries have sufficient political will and agree to remove sanctions on Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday. "Ou…

By Simon Jessop and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - After watching a crack-down on bankers for bad behaviour, British fund managers are calling in lawyers to help to spring clean their businesses as the regulatory spotlight turns towards their indus…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police said Monday they arrested more than three dozen people involved in scuffles that broke out at a weekend protest against the growing influx of mainland Chinese shoppers.

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, the former Rupert Murdoch protegee cleared last year of running an illegal campaign to hack into phones for tabloid scoops, is in talks to return to the media conglomerate, a source said on Monday. A…

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Workers accusing Apple, Google and two other Silicon Valley companies of conspiring to hold down salaries will try on Monday to win approval of a $415 million (270 million pounds) settlement from a U.S. judge…

Investor Warren Buffett is praising both IBM and ExxonMobil even though the computing business has struggled and Berkshire Hathaway sold its 41 million shares in the oil producer. Buffett appeared on CNBC ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Unilever has agreed to buy Britain's REN Skincare brand, it said on Monday, as the company expands its personal care business. Financial terms of the deal, expected to close in May, were not disclosed. (Reporting by Martinne Geller…

Britain's Financial Conduct Authority and the Department for Work and Pensions have called on members of the country's investment industry to help fashion new rules on how workplace pension scheme costs should be reported to savers. From April this…

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone consumer prices fell by less than expected in February while unemployment eased in January for the third month in a row, offering signs that the risks of economic stagnation and deflation in the blo…

U.S. video service provider Netflix Inc is likely to enter the Chinese market without a local partner, which could make it harder to do business in the world's biggest internet market widely known for censorship and strict regulation. The firm, know…

By Paul Carrel and John O'Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers decamp to Cyprus on Wednesday wrestling with the uncomfortable fact that they may hold the keys to Greece's continued membership of the euro. With no politica…

World News

The US and Russian foreign ministers held "hopeful" talks in Geneva Monday to end fighting in Ukraine, where the UN says more than 6,000 people have died in less than a year.- 15 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 2:08pm -

The chief witness to the murder of Russian protest leader Boris Nemtsov, a Ukrainian model by his side when he was shot dead, complained Monday of being kept under guard in Moscow.- 17 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 2:06pm -

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two airplane catastrophes put Malaysia on the map in a bad way in 2014. But they didn't hurt the country's tourism, and the higher visibility may even have helped: visitor numbers had their strongest growth in years.…- 20 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 2:03pm -

Former Libyan general Khalifa Haftar was appointed as army commander for the country's internationally recognised government on Monday in a decision that may complicate U.N. talks to end fighting in Libya. Four years after Muammar Gaddafi's demise,…- 29 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:54pm -

Former Libyan general Khalifa Haftar was appointed as army commander for the country's internationally recognized government on Monday in a decision that may complicate U.N. talks to end fighting in Libya. Four years after Muammar Gaddafi's demise,…- 29 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:54pm -

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Yemen visited the country's embattled president Monday in the southern port city of Aden, where Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has set up base after fleeing house arrest at the hands of Shiite rebels in the capi…- 45 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:38pm -

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday warned Israel's prime minister against revealing details at his upcoming speech to US Congress of an Iran nuclear deal that world powers are in the process of negotiating.- 53 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:30pm -

By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, finally met with all five of the Cuban spies who returned home as heroes after serving long prison terms in the United States, 73 days after the last of them were freed in…- 54 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:29pm -

In this photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe, a student protester lies on the floor of a monastery in Letpadan, Myanmar, after police stopped protesters from continuing their march toward Yangon, the country's largest city. The students have been rallying fo…- 54 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:29pm -

GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is warning that public discussion of details of the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran will make it more difficult to reach a deal that prevents the country from developing atomic weapons.- 59 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:24pm -

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Greece needs to give more details on the reforms it promised euro zone peers in return for the extension of its aid programme. "Now it's about specifying these reform proposals," Merkel said in a s…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:22pm -

Iraqi security forces have launched a major military operation to take back the town of Tikrit from Islamic State militants. The hometown of Saddam Hussein, it fell under the control of the group last summer along with Iraq's second-largest city of…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:20pm -

GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday delivered a vigorous defense of Israel before the U.N. Human Rights Council, urging its members to end what the United States says is its unfair and biased focus on the Jewish State that c…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:08pm -

AirAsia flight QZ8501's fuselage has been retrieved from the seabed and sent to to experts in Jakarta for analysis. The Singapore-bound flight crashed 40 minutes after take off from the country's second largest city, Surabaya, killing all 162 passen…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:01pm -

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Former Libyan general Khalifa Haftar was confirmed on Monday as army commander of the country's internationally recognised government, according to two lawmakers. The confirmation of Haftar, a former ally of Muammar Gadda…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:01pm -

Prices in the 19-nation eurozone were down 0.3 percent in February, much less than the drop of 0.6 percent in January when tumbling energy costs slashed the cost of living, the EU statistics agency Eurostat ...- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 12:59pm -

LETPADAN, Myanmar (AP) — Truckloads of police on Monday prevented hundreds of students from continuing their march to Myanmar's biggest city to protest a new law that they say curbs academic freedom.- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:44pm -

Britain's top equity index briefly touched a new record high on Monday before turning negative as commodity stocks weakened. The blue-chip FTSE 100 equity index rose as much as 0.3 percent to a record intraday high of 6,974.26 points. The miners tra…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:42pm -

LONDON (AP) — The man who became the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" was a relatively hardworking student who showed no signs of being radicalized, his former school principal said Monday.- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:38pm -

GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Monday with his Russian counterpart in what appeared to be less than amicable talks amid continuing tensions over Ukraine and American calls for a full probe into the murder of a prominent oppos…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:37pm -

The man, known only as Christopher, posted a video on YouTube calling it "possibly the scariest moment of my life". He said he suffered the seizure at around 9,000ft (2,743m) while attempting a left-hand turn during a training course, before spendi…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:36pm -

MOSCOW (AP) — The investigation into the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was gunned down not far from the Kremlin, faced conflicting reports Monday about possible surveillance footage of his slayin…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:35pm -

Argentina's scandal-hit president came out swinging with a fiery speech about justice on 1 March, retaking the initiative three days after being cleared of allegations that she tried to derail an investigation into a deadly 1994 bombing in Buenos Ai…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:31pm -

Things get off to a weird start today as a minor interruption turns into a day-long ordeal. The good news is that you can adapt to this as easily as anything else once you see it for what it really is.More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's Love…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

Your emotions are bigger and louder than ever -- is it time for you to go into seclusion? You may need to find a way to just ease into this new situation, or at least get a friend to support you.More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's LoveScopes…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

It's time for you to speak from the heart -- you're grounded and ready for this, and you should be able to get most of your people to understand where you're coming from. Be brave!More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's LoveScopes, Daily Couple'…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

You aren't quite feeling the same kind of connection you usually do with a friend, colleague or family member. It's nothing personal -- it's just the way your energies are out of sync. Wait a few days.More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's Love…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

Finances are a big problem for you today -- but it's mostly in your head! You need to shake it off and get some assistance from someone who's calm and knows what they're talking about.More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's LoveScopes, Daily Cou…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

You're feeling pretty stretched out today -- so much so that you could find it easier to just hunker down and deal with your own stuff than to reach out to friends or customers. Chill out!More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's LoveScopes, Daily…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

Your energy seems to have doubled overnight, and you may need to work some of it off at the gym or the dance floor. Whatever you do, you're sure to have a good time with it all.More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's LoveScopes, Daily Couple's L…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

Your energy is terrific! It's a great day to ask big questions and go for big goals -- you are much more likely to get what you want. Things are looking up for sure, so get ready for something really big!More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's L…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

Everything is under control -- or at least you are, even if the rest of the world is losing its composure. You may be able to profit by your calmness, but don't bite off more than you can chew.More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's LoveScopes,…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

Things are pretty much cut and dried today -- there isn't much mystery to deal with. That doesn't mean life isn't fun, just that you need to make sure that you're dealing with what you see in front of you.More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

Get organized! Your great mental energy helps you to discover new tricks to keep your mind and papers in order. Life should get even better once you've implemented these techniques.More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's LoveScopes, Daily Couple…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

How's your love life? You may hear that question a lot today (or read it into other questions), because your heart and your head are working in perfect sync. It's time to step up your love game!More horoscopes! Check your Daily Single's LoveScopes,…- 2 days ago 1 Mar 15, 12:00am -

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The portrait of the Queen on the nation's coins has altered for the first time in 17 years - with a new picture of her Majesty unveiled on Monday morning, the BBC's Victoria Fritz reports.- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:04am -

The International Space Station is now three steps – or rather spacewalks – closer to being ready for the arrival of new U.S. commercial crewed spacecraft with the successful completion of a two-astronaut outing on Sunday morning (March 1). NASA…- 17 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 9:05pm -

A newfound cosmic object may be a long-sought missing link that could help flesh out the black hole family tree. The black holes are therefore intermediate in size between stellar-mass black holes and the behemoths that lurk at the hearts of galaxie…- 17 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 9:05pm -

A small piece of spaceflight history will zoom through the Pluto system this July aboard NASA's New Horizons probe. Inside New Horizons is a piece of SpaceShipOne, the first privately owned and operated manned spacecraft to reach space — which beg…- 17 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 9:05pm -

Two US astronauts on Sunday made speedy work of their third spacewalk to get the International Space Station ready for the arrival of more commercial spacecraft in the coming years.- 20 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 6:29pm -

The countdown is on to the launch of Apollo 18 and you're invited to witness it from New York City's Times Square. "Apollo XVIII," created by artist Marco Brambilla, weaves archival footage from real NASA missions with computer-generated imagery to…- 22 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 4:33pm -

NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin orbiting the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres this week, ending a deep-space chase that lasted 2 1/2 years. "We've been using the ion propulsion system for a long time gradually to reshape Dawn's orbit around the sun s…- 1 day ago 1 Mar 15, 12:44pm -

Actor Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed the iconic logical Vulcan Spock on TV's "Star Trek" and in feature films, has died. Nimoy's career spanned TV, feature films, art and photography, but he was perhaps best known for playing Spock, the logical Vulcan…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 7:12pm -

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — American astronauts will venture back out for a spacewalk this weekend, despite a helmet water leak on their previous trip outside the International Space Station.- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 5:42pm -

A new instrument on Europe's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has produced the most detailed 3-D view yet of the deep Universe, discovering 26 distant galaxies in just 27 hours of scanning, its operators said Friday.- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 4:08pm -

The United States must do more than just plant a flag on Mars if it wants to continue as a leader in the field of space exploration, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin told senators this week. "In my opinion, there is no more convincing way to demonst…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 1:02pm -

A new type of orbiting telescope could take images more than 1,000 times sharper than those snapped by NASA's famous Hubble Space Telescope, the technology's developers say. Researchers have dubbed their concept the "Aragoscope," after French scient…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 1:02pm -

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has bored into rocks at the base of the towering Mount Sharp for the third time. The car-size Curiosity rover drilled into a rock called Telegraph Peak on Tuesday (Feb. 24), collecting sample powder for analysis by its on…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 1:02pm -

Brazilian astronomers said Friday they had found two star clusters forming in a remote part of our Milky Way galaxy where such a thing was previously thought impossible.- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 8:33am -

The discovery of another bright light on the dwarf planet Ceres has NASA scientists perplexed as the US Dawn probe prepares to enter the orbit of the largest object in the asteroid belt and possibly resolve the mystery.- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 3:53am -

The amazing new photo, released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) today (Feb. 26) reveals never-before-seen cosmic objects in a relatively small patch of sky. The MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile spent 27 hours staring…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 4:45pm -

Astronomers have discovered the largest and most luminous black hole ever seen — an ancient monster with a mass about 12 billion times that of the sun — that dates back to when the universe was less than 1 billion years old. Supermassive black h…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 1:18pm -

The intrigue surrounding Ceres continues to deepen as a NASA probe gets closer to the dwarf planet. The new photos of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Ceres on the night of March 5, reveal that a puzzli…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 1:18pm -

With an eye towards the future, NASA commemorated the first 50 years of its two rocket-carrying crawler-transporters on Monday (Feb. 23) by taking one of the newly-upgraded massive machines out for a test drive to the launch pad. Crawler-transporter…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 1:18pm -

Alexei Gubarev, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who trained to fly to the moon but instead commanded the first multi-national space station crew, died Saturday (Feb. 21). Alexei Gubarev's death was reported by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star Ci…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 1:18pm -

After two centuries of arguing about its origin, scientists have finally confirmed that Hummeln Lake in southern Sweden is an impact crater. Hummeln Lake's rounded shoreline first drew interest from scientists as far back as the 1820s, but it wasn't…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 12:49pm -

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacewalking astronaut ended up with unwanted water in his helmet Wednesday after breezing through a cable and lube job outside the International Space Station.- 5 days ago 26 Feb 15, 1:28am -

An American astronaut found water inside his spacesuit helmet at the end of an otherwise flawless spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Feb. 25), but he was never in any danger, NASA officials say. NASA astronaut Terry Virts and h…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 10:24pm -

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Two U.S. astronauts finished a 6-1/2-hour spacewalk on Wednesday to prepare parking spots for new commercial space taxis then discovered water had leaked into a spacesuit helmet, a problem that led to t…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 8:40pm -

An American astronaut found water pooling inside his helmet after he finished a six-plus hour spacewalk on Wednesday, raising new concerns about the safety of NASA's spacesuits.- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 8:28pm -

Russia will continue using the International Space Station in partnership with NASA until 2024, its space agency said, after Moscow had threatened to pull out and stop financing it by 2020.- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 8:21pm -

PHOENIX (AP) — Early risers across much of Arizona were treated to a colorful sight — a pink cloud from a NASA research rocket that was launched Wednesday from a U.S. Army installation in New Mexico.- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 7:18pm -

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts breezed through a lube and cable job outside the International Space Station. But afterward, one of the men reported water in his helmet, scarily reminiscent of a near-drowning in orbit two years…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 7:09pm -

A new alien planet-hunting tool has found no trace of a brown dwarf more than 100 light-years from Earth, despite evidence that the misfit failed star is eclipsing its partner, a team of puzzled astronomers says. European Southern Observatory's (ESO…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 5:44pm -

A new video from a NASA satellite orbiting the moon brings the phases of the far side of the lunar body into the light. The phases of the moon — full moon, new moon, crescent and everything in between — also occur on the side facing away from Ea…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 5:44pm -

A new selfie taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows just where the six-wheeled robot has been working for the last five months. Curiosity's latest Mars photo, which was released today (Feb. 24), is a composite of dozens of images taken in late J…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 5:44pm -

A recent action by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is stirring up some moon dust in a legal debate about private companies setting up shop on the moon. In late 2014, the FAA's Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Trans…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 5:44pm -

Small satellites could hitch rides to space on an F-15 fighter jet by next year, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the agency responsible for developing new technologies for the U.S. military. DARPA's so-called Airb…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 1:52pm -

Two NASA astronauts are now performing a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, and people on Earth can watch the spacewalk live online. Astronauts Barry Wilmore, commander of Expedition 42, and flight engineer Terry Virts ventured out i…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 12:49pm -

By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A fireball spotted streaking across the night sky late on Monday in the western United States was almost certainly the body of a rocket used by China in December to launch a satellite, an astronomer said T…- 6 days ago 25 Feb 15, 1:51am -

Lunar days stretch for about 14 Earth days with average temperatures of 253 degrees Fahrenheit (123 degrees Celsius), while lunar nights also last 14 Earth days (due to the moon's rotation) and maintain a frigid cold of minus 387 degrees Fahrenheit…- 6 days ago 24 Feb 15, 9:57pm -

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History Videos

Flying Cars

Tucson) Everyone’s favorite flying car comes to life as Christian Youth Theater presents a musical adaptation of the beloved family film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” March 26 – 29 at the Pima Community College Center for the Arts Proscenium…- 1 day ago 1 Mar 15, 7:17am -

John Hopton for redOrbit.com - @Johnfinitum Sweden is leading the way in testing cars and trucks in a virtual environment during the early stages of development, long before a prototype is even made. The complexity of hardware and software combinatio…- 2 days ago 28 Feb 15, 6:09pm -

Bored with your cushy, overpowered luxury sedan? Do modern "dynamic" designs fail to live up to your expectations of dynamism? Have you grown weary of the endless hordes of dull, anonymous, unoriginal cars you see everywhere? That's because the wrong…- 6 days ago 24 Feb 15, 10:39pm -

With rumors swirling about the newest flying car, I mean self-driving car, I mean Apple car , I'm forced to wonder how many times a very much non-automotive company has sold an automobile? Read more...- 13 days ago 17 Feb 15, 5:00pm -

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd , the maker of Subaru cars, said it would continue flying car parts to its U.S. factory beyond an initial arrangement through the end of February, as a labour dispute at U.S. ...- 14 days ago 16 Feb 15, 3:47am -

Every six months, websites proclaim that the flying car is just over the horizon! And as if on schedule, the Daily Mail has a new article about how Terrafugia's Transition is coming soon! The only problem? We've been hearing that since 2008 . Read mo…- 21 days ago 10 Feb 15, 12:18am -

Fallout from the Brit awards shook up the music charts on Sunday, knocking U.S. rock band Imagine Dragons off the top spot in favour of English singer/songwriter Sam Smith, data from the Official Charts company showed. Smith won the British BreakThr…- 19 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 7:06pm -

PARIS (Reuters) - (Note language that some readers might find offensive) A music video by a group of mostly middle-aged French stars telling the young they can succeed only if they "do something" triggered a bitter generational row on Friday, with cr…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 12:53pm -

By Liisa Tuhkanen LONDON (Reuters) - The top British music awards went to young men on Wednesday as Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith bagged the most important trophies in a star-studded Brit Awards show in London. English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was th…- 5 days ago 26 Feb 15, 1:21am -

Starbucks will stop selling CDs at the end of the month, and it isn't hip to cry about it. Last week's news that the coffee chain would do away with its register-side racks was met on Twitter with many a condolence to Norah Jones's career; at Vultur…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 1:44pm -

Some artists are popular, of course: Taylor Swift and Beyoncé bestride the Earth. In last week’s T Magazine, pegged to New York Fashion Week, former New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn admitted she didn’t know what was trendy either.- 6 days ago 24 Feb 15, 1:08pm -

Ellie Goulding topped the British music singles chart for the third week running on Sunday, the Official Charts Company said, with her track "Love Me Like You Do" breaking the all-time audio streaming record. The song, which appears in the "Fifty Sh…- 8 days ago 22 Feb 15, 7:06pm -

(Reuters) - Clark Terry, a Grammy award-winning trumpet player and composer who recorded with greats such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Quincy Jones, has died aged 94, his wife said on Sunday. Terry, who had gone into hospice care after suf…- 8 days ago 22 Feb 15, 9:26am -

(This January 18 story corrects headline and first sentence to show that paid subscription service is for music, not broader service; changes source to Google, not CNBC; removes reference to YouTube exploring a paid, ad-free version of its service)…- 10 days ago 20 Feb 15, 10:04pm -

NEW YORK (AP) — Glen Campbell's daughter says that although she can't have a typical conversation with her father, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, she's able to speak to him through music.- 10 days ago 20 Feb 15, 1:07pm -

Musical muse and fine art photographer Pattie Boyd has unveiled a new photographic exhibit featuring rare photos of her famous first and second husbands, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. The exhibit, housed at the San Francisco Art Exchange, also s…- 11 days ago 19 Feb 15, 4:12pm -

Blur are to release their first studio album in 12 years. The band, whose hits include Parklife and Song 2, announced on Facebook they would return with their eighth album, called The Magic Whip, on 27 April. Lead singer Damon Albarn said: "I really…- 11 days ago 19 Feb 15, 3:19pm -

Foo Fighters have revealed they will be the headline act on the first day of Glastonbury Festival. In a recorded video message, frontman Dave Grohl told music fans at Brixton Academy, south London, they were returning to the UK to play Glastonbury.…- 11 days ago 19 Feb 15, 11:56am -

(Reuters) - Google Inc's YouTube is set to launch its long-awaited paid monthly subscription service called YouTube Music Key in a few months, said Robert Kyncl, the online video service's head of content and business operations, at the Code/Media c…- 11 days ago 19 Feb 15, 3:35am -

Grateful Dead songwriting duo Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, country music star Toby Keith and "Time After Time" singer Cyndi Lauper will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame later this year, the organisation said on Wednesday. They will b…- 12 days ago 18 Feb 15, 8:16pm -

MOSCOW (AP) — Two members of the punk provocateur band Pussy Riot have released a new music video dedicated to Eric Garner, an unarmed man who was killed when a New York City police officer put him in a fatal chokehold.- 12 days ago 18 Feb 15, 5:15pm -

(Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who shot to stardom as a New Jersey teenager with the 1960s pop hit "It's My Party" and co-wrote music for the 1980 film "Fame," died on Monday in New York, a longtime associate confirmed. Gore, who died at…- 14 days ago 16 Feb 15, 11:31pm -

Culture

By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - It's not every artist who could see a woman's hat in a red farmyard faucet, but works on view in Istanbul show the 20th century Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro in a playful mood in later life. "The sho…- 33 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:50pm -

The Duke of Cambridge Prince William had a brief tour of the Forbidden City in China on 2 March as he began the first visit to the mainland by a member of the British royal family in almost three decades. William and his entourage were seen entering…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:24pm -

Fallout from the Brit awards shook up the music charts on Sunday, knocking U.S. rock band Imagine Dragons off the top spot in favour of English singer/songwriter Sam Smith, data from the Official Charts company showed. Smith won the British BreakThr…- 19 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 7:06pm -

Will Smith's new action drama "Focus" booted the kinky sex tale "Fifty Shades of Grey" for its perch atop U.S. and Canadian weekend box office charts, racking up $19.1 million (12.3 million pounds) in ticket sales. Smith, in his first leading role s…- 20 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 6:02pm -

PARIS (AP) — French cultural officials say 15 pieces of art have been stolen from a Chinese museum south of Paris, including a replica crown of the King of Siam given to France's emperor in the mid-19th century.- 21 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 5:07pm -

About 15 rare pieces of art were stolen on Sunday morning in the Chinese Museum of the Chateau de Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris, the French culture ministry said. These included a crown of the King of Siam, given to Emperor Napoleon III during th…- 22 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 4:48pm -

The Scarred Skyline Keith Phipps | The Dissolve "When Kong gazes at Manhattan in the Dino De Laurentiis-produced 1976 remake of King Kong, he latches onto the image of the World Trade Center’s twin towers, illuminated on the evening of his New Yor…- 2 days ago 28 Feb 15, 2:00pm -

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have broken up a gang that allegedly created and then sold fake works of art purporting to be by renowned artists including Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Joan Miro.- 2 days ago 28 Feb 15, 1:50pm -

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Gothic hip-hop artist charged with killing a London break dancer with an illegal buttocks injection name-dropped her way through testimony Friday, saying one of the celebrities who sought her out became "a walking billboard" f…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 10:28pm -

NEW YORK (AP) — John B. Fairchild, who took Women's Wear Daily from dry fashion trade publication to an international industry force, died Friday at his Manhattan home after a long illness, the magazine confirmed. He was 87.- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 8:30pm -

By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - A 122-year old Venetian-style palazzo tucked into Boston's marshy Fens section stands as one of the city's more popular tourist attractions and the site of one of its longest-unsolved crimes. It has been almost…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 12:46pm -

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Finding Neverland," Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein's first hands-on foray into musical theatre and which follows the British family that inspired Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie's classic children t…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 11:24pm -

ATLANTA (AP) — The curvy Coca-Cola bottle is celebrating its 100th birthday, and an art museum is exploring the origins and influence of a bottle design that's so recognizable, you'd know the brand if you held it in the dark.- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 7:24pm -

By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - The eminent but anonymous British street artist known as Banksy has posted a mini-documentary on his banksy.co.uk site showing squalid conditions in Gaza six months after the end of the war between the enclave's Is…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 5:29pm -

“Visual communications of any kind … from billboards to birth announcements, should be seen as the embodiment of form and function: the integration of the beautiful and the useful,” wrote Paul Rand (1914-1996) in 1947's Thoughts on Design. Now…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 4:00pm -

Banksy has released a video of a satirical travel advert for Gaza after travelling to the area undercover. The film, posted on the elusive artist's website, appears to show him entering through one of the underground tunnels carrying cans of spray…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 12:53pm -

By Liisa Tuhkanen LONDON (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran took home the coveted best album prize at Britain's top music honours on Wednesday for "X" at a star-studded Brit Awards show in London. "I didn't expect it... It's been a very good y…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 10:34pm -

If the mark of a good con artist is that he or she makes you think you know exactly what's going on — when of course you haven't a clue — that's also the mark of a good con-artist movie, isn't it? To make you feel like you totally get what's abo…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 10:19pm -

By Alicia Avila LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After making her film breakout as the no-holds-barred wife of Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort in 2013's "The Wolf of Wall Street," Margot Robbie is taking on Will Smith for a tango of twists and turns in th…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 7:55pm -

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three years after Maurice Sendak's death, his western Connecticut hometown of Ridgefield is pursuing a museum honoring the author of "Where the Wild Things Are."- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 7:37pm -

NATICK, Mass. (AP) — In a story Feb. 20 about the Museum of World War II, The Associated Press, relying on information from the museum's founder, erroneously reported that it is the only one in the country where patrons can use Nazi-era Enigma cod…- 5 days ago 25 Feb 15, 1:54pm -

NEW YORK (AP) — In a dystopian near-future — is there any other kind predicted, lately? — playwright Jennifer Haley has created a sophisticated detective story set in the world of virtual reality.- 6 days ago 25 Feb 15, 1:34am -

By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. Reif Larsen’s new novel, I am Radar, is influenced by quantum mechanics—a field of science that highlights how nothing in the universe is cert…- 6 days ago 24 Feb 15, 6:58pm -

By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - The tunes were familiar but the words were not as a troupe of deaf and blind North Koreans performed "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and songs from "The Phantom of the Opera" in Britain and France over the past w…- 6 days ago 24 Feb 15, 5:46pm -

German police have found East German secret police chief Erich Mielke's office telephone and several other objects stolen from the former Stasi headquarters, now a museum, in a flat in the Neukoelln district of Berlin. The objects, including spy came…- 6 days ago 24 Feb 15, 2:31pm -

Like a Valkyrie swooping down from her mountaintop, soprano Christine Goerke is poised to descend on America's opera houses — but instead of wearing a set of wings on her shoulders, she's carrying the role of a lifetime.- 6 days ago 24 Feb 15, 2:08pm -

U.S. video service provider Netflix Inc is likely to enter the Chinese market without a local partner, which could make it harder to do business in the world's biggest internet market widely known for censorship and strict regulation. The firm, know…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:23am -

Ikea is launching wired-up desks, tables and lamps which can wirelessly charge your phone. The company is releasing a new collection which will use Qi wireless technology to charge devices that are placed on the new furniture. The Home Spot range wi…- 4 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 10:26am -

(Reuters) - App-based cab service Ola has bought rival TaxiForSure for $200 million (130 million pounds) as it eyes a bigger share in India's fast-growing online taxi services industry, where it competes with local players as well as Uber, the U.S.-b…- 5 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 8:59am -

By Malathi Nayak NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc will link its connected car and smart home technologies to bolster its foothold in the fast-growing market for Internet-connected devices, a new battleground for the company and rivals ranging from Veri…- 6 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 8:43am -

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors N.V. said Sunday it had agreed to buy its smaller rival Freescale Semiconductor Ltd. for $11.8 billion in a deal that will make it the biggest supplier of microchips to the automotive industry.- 12 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 1:58am -

By Eric Auchard BARCELONA (Reuters) - Running short of dramatically new phone designs, leaders of the world's wireless industry agree their next big idea is 5G, shorthand for the fifth generation of networks they expect to have up and running by 2020…- 15 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 11:09pm -

A small piece of spaceflight history will zoom through the Pluto system this July aboard NASA's New Horizons probe. Inside New Horizons is a piece of SpaceShipOne, the first privately owned and operated manned spacecraft to reach space — which beg…- 17 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 9:05pm -

By Edward Taylor and Jan Schwartz GENEVA (Reuters) - The main talking point at this week's Geneva car show is likely to be a vehicle that may never be built: the Apple car. The world's automakers will gather in the Swiss city to tout their latest mi…- 21 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 5:30pm -

The yearlong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the plane, but that doesn't mean it's been unproductive. It has yielded lessons and discoveries that could benefit millions, ...- 22 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 4:39pm -

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Small SUVs for families and powerful sports cars for the rich are the big things at this year's Geneva International Motor Show. Environmentally correct electrics and hybrids, not so much — thanks to cheaper gas and lim…- 23 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 3:18pm -

Telecom companies such as AT&T and Vodafone have convinced U.S. and European regulators, finalising so-called "net neutrality" rules, to allow them to dedicate network capacity to services such as providing connectivity to driverless cars and facili…- 24 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 2:45pm -

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's forestry department has captured a rare white elephant in the jungles of the country's western Ayeyarwaddy region, an official said Sunday.- 1 day ago 1 Mar 15, 11:45am -

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A butterfly being considered for federal protection is emblematic of the plight that pollinating insects face in part because farmers, enticed by ethanol mandates, are growing more herbicide-resistant crops, which has strip…- 2 days ago 28 Feb 15, 5:48pm -

(Reuters) - Leonard Nimoy, best known for his portrayal of logic-bound Mr. Spock in the "Star Trek" science fiction television series and movies, died on Friday at age 83 after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The following are re…- 3 days ago 28 Feb 15, 1:43am -

TULALIP, Wash. (AP) — The Justice Department's announcement in December that it would allow the nation's Indian tribes to legalize and regulate marijuana on their reservations brought notes of caution — if not silence or opposition — from many…- 3 days ago 28 Feb 15, 1:39am -

Google Inc submitted plans on Friday for a vastly expanded headquarters at the Silicon Valley city where the tech giant is based, presenting a bucolic vision of movable structures to be built under curving and translucent canopies. The submission of…- 3 days ago 28 Feb 15, 12:24am -

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House released draft legislation on Friday that would give consumers more control over how the trail of data they leave behind them on the internet is used, stored and sold. The 24-page "discussion…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 11:06pm -

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid "rapid growth" in the collection of data on Americans, the White House on Friday proposed legislation that calls on businesses to do more to help consumers protect their personal information.- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 11:04pm -

(Reuters) - Leonard Nimoy, best known for his portrayal of logic-bound Mr. Spock in the "Star Trek" science fiction television series and movies, died on Friday at age 83 after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Here are reactions t…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 9:15pm -

Amid "rapid growth" in the collection of data on Americans, the White House is proposing legislation that calls on businesses to do more to help consumers protect their personal information. ...- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 8:32pm -

(Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd on Friday said it will offer free subscriptions to Intel Corp security software to customers who bought laptops that were shipped with a program known as "Superfish," which made PCs vulnerable to cyberattacks. Se…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 4:51pm -

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker AstraZeneca has decided to carve out its early-stage antibiotic research by creating a stand-alone subsidiary company, as it sharpens its focus on other therapy areas. Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 8:16am -

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) - China has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more locally made products, in what some say is a response to revelations of widesp…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 6:18am -

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market largely shrugged off the Federal Communications Commission's vote to impose tougher rules on broadband providers like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T to prevent them from creating paid fast lanes for the Internet and slow…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 10:31pm -

By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the strictest-ever rules on Internet providers, who in turn pledged to battle the new restrictions in the courts and Congress, saying they would discourage investment and s…- 4 days ago 26 Feb 15, 10:04pm -

Technology

Twitter Inc and law enforcement authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network's co-founder and other employees, the company said in reaction to media reports. "Our security team is inv…- 14 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 2:09pm -

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Workers accusing Apple, Google and two other Silicon Valley companies of conspiring to hold down salaries will try on Monday to win approval of a $415 million (270 million pounds) settlement from a U.S. judge…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:05pm -

U.S. video service provider Netflix Inc is likely to enter the Chinese market without a local partner, which could make it harder to do business in the world's biggest internet market widely known for censorship and strict regulation. The firm, know…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:23am -

(Reuters) - Google Inc's Bradley Horowitz will run the company's Photo and Streams products, in a move that indicates the company may be reorganizing its Google+ social networking site. Horowitz, vice president of product management since 2008, anno…- 4 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 10:45am -

Ikea is launching wired-up desks, tables and lamps which can wirelessly charge your phone. The company is releasing a new collection which will use Qi wireless technology to charge devices that are placed on the new furniture. The Home Spot range wi…- 4 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 10:26am -

By Malathi Nayak NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc will link its connected car and smart home technologies to bolster its foothold in the fast-growing market for Internet-connected devices, a new battleground for the company and rivals ranging from Veri…- 6 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 8:43am -

Dutch navigation systems company TomTom said on Monday it had struck a deal with KIA to provide traffic, weather and other real-time data for the South Korean carmaker's European automobile models. KIA sells about 350,000 cars in Europe annually. Se…- 6 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 8:28am -

By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said on Monday it plans to offer a cloud-based version of its device management platform BES12, a move that will make the service more accessible to small- and medium-sized businesses that need to sec…- 6 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 8:21am -

By Eric Auchard BARCELONA (Reuters) - Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Finland's Nokia said on Monday they are working together to develop networks running at high frequencies for use in the 5G wireless era - technology expected to be showcased at the 2020 To…- 8 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 6:32am -

Sony has injected some high-end design and waterproofing into the mid-range smartphone market with the Xperia M4 Aqua, announced at Mobile World Congress. Available in black, white and what Sony is calling bright coral, the M4 Aqua has a 5in screen…- 8 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 6:00am -

NEW YORK (AP) — Samsung, locked in a tight race with Apple to be the world's biggest smartphone maker, has unveiled an important new phone that ditches its signature plastic design for more stylish metal and glass.- 12 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 2:41am -

Nokia, the world's third-largest mobile equipment maker, has seen nothing in its business that would lead it to change its financial outlook, its chief executive said on Sunday. It is kind of business as usual," Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri said in respons…- 19 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 7:33pm -

NEW YORK (AP) — Last fall, Apple launched Apple Pay, bringing mobile-payment technology to the iPhone. Samsung now wants to get that on Android phones — at least the ones it makes.- 20 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 6:15pm -

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia will lead a trial of an enhanced method of tracking aircraft over remote oceans to allow planes to be more easily found should they vanish like Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australia's transport min…- 21 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 5:34pm -

By Edward Taylor and Jan Schwartz GENEVA (Reuters) - The main talking point at this week's Geneva car show is likely to be a vehicle that may never be built: the Apple car. The world's automakers will gather in the Swiss city to tout their latest mi…- 21 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 5:30pm -

The yearlong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the plane, but that doesn't mean it's been unproductive. It has yielded lessons and discoveries that could benefit millions, ...- 22 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 4:39pm -

Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML said on Sunday that it was investigating an unauthorised intrusion into its IT systems, but it had found no evidence that valuable files were accessed. ASML, the world's largest maker of tools for etching out…- 23 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 3:19pm -

Reviews

Today at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unveiled two of the most intriguing budget phones in recent memory: the 5-inch Lumia 640 and 5.7-inch Lumia 640XL, both of which are coming to the U.S. later this year on AT&T, T-Mobile and MetroPCS. The 5.7-…- 44 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:39pm -

Washington, Mar. 02 (ANI): Black hole collisions has provided a deeper insight into the most energetic event in universe, the merging of two spinning, orbiting black holes into a much larger black hole, for first time ever. The work by Dr. Michael Ke…- 5 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 9:48am -

The scopes were linked to the exposure of 179 patients to drug-resistant bacteria at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles and may have contributed to two deaths. In early 2014, following a superbug outbreak at a hospital in Illinois, th…- 8 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 6:24am -

Technically Incorrect: With less superfluous software and more emphasis on design, some might wonder whether Samsung's new phone is a little too similar to the iPhone. Will that make marketing it easier?>- 11 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 3:13am -

The Fugoo is marketed as a "go anywhere speaker" and it's probably true. This is a shockproof, waterproof speaker that would be safe indoors, outdoors, in the shower, on a surf board, dirt biking, in the mud (just wash it off!), snow, sand, getting…- 16 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 10:20pm -

BARCELONA -- Samsung Pay might sound like Apple Pay, but the Korean company's new mobile wallet solution aims to reach far more registers than that of its rivals. Revealed at Mobile World Congress 2015, Samsung Pay will work with both NFC-based and…- 21 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 5:39pm -

Samsung just unveiled its two next-generation flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, and tech fans will spend most of the day reading the same thing over and over again: These are the best Samsung phones ever — nay, the best Andr…- 21 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 5:30pm -

Following countless leaks and endless teasers, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphones. The pair of S6 phones succeed the Galaxy S5, Samsung's prior flagship announced one year ago, and will be available across the wor…- 21 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 5:30pm -

Samsung just announced its newest smartphones: the Galaxy S 6 and Galaxy S 6 edge. They’re both very different from the phones Samsung has released in the past — the company gave each device a completely new design and improved on a few key feat…- 21 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 5:30pm -

You can officially add HTC to the list of companies that have jumped into activity tracking. At Mobile World Congress 2015, HTC revealed its first fitness tracker: the Grip. HTC told us that it believes the Grip could appeal to the most dedicated at…- 22 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 4:32pm -

Matthew spent over 24 hours using the new HTC One M9 and it exceeds the emotional appeal of the M7. HTC improved where it needed to and the One M9 is sure to be a popular phone.- 23 hours ago 1 Mar 15, 3:45pm -

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A butterfly being considered for federal protection is emblematic of the plight that pollinating insects face in part because farmers, enticed by ethanol mandates, are growing more herbicide-resistant crops, which has strip…- 2 days ago 28 Feb 15, 5:48pm -

UAE-based technology firm Al Yah Communications Company, also known as Yahsat, has signed a contract to provide satellite communications services to the Bahrain Defence Force. Under the terms of the contract, Yahsat will provide multi-faceted custom…- 2 days ago 28 Feb 15, 8:40am -

Google Inc submitted plans on Friday for a vastly expanded headquarters at the Silicon Valley city where the tech giant is based, presenting a bucolic vision of movable structures to be built under curving and translucent canopies. The submission of…- 3 days ago 28 Feb 15, 12:28am -

An environmental group sued the U.S. government on Friday, accusing regulators of discounting the dangers that a widely used herbicide poses to the declining monarch butterfly population. The suit claimed the agency has failed to heed warnings about…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 11:13pm -

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon As many as 50,000 Uber drivers may have had some of their personal information compromised after a data breach last year, Uber announced on its blog on Friday. Katherine Tassi, Uber’s managing counsel of data privacy, said…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 10:16pm -

Every week, a landslide of video game trailers hit the Internet, hyping up the games that have just been released, the games that are about to be released and even the games that don’t have release dates. It can be a bit overwhelming to keep up wi…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 10:00pm -

The cloud and retail giant is preparing to expand its voice-activated assistant's capabilities with the launch of a beta software development kit to help outsiders to build apps.- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 9:59pm -

Three new cases of measles have been confirmed in Las Vegas, in people believed infected by a contagious worker at an upscale MGM Grand Hotel and Casino seafood restaurant, Nevada public health officials said on Friday. The newly diagnosed patients,…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 7:40pm -

The first image of Microsoft’s HoloLens prototype has leaked over at the Oculus Rift subreddit, giving us a glimpse at the prototype shown off to press after the headset’s announcement in January. While Microsoft has revealed what the HoloLens w…- 3 days ago 27 Feb 15, 6:22pm -

In a notorious neighbourhood of a US city, an ancient art form is keeping troubled youth off the streets. BBC Pop Up reports on gangs and glassblowing in Tacoma, Washington.- 13 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 1:27am -

The 23-year-old Briton, who spent two years with the Marussia F1 outfit, will make his debut for Nissan at the WEC opener at Silverstone on April 12. "I'm honored to have been asked to join a manufacturer as prestigious as Nissan in a championship t…- 28 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:55pm -

John Terry has said he no plans to reconsider his international retirement despite his Wembley goalscoring heroics in an emotional Capital One Cup final on Sunday. The 34-year-old scored his first major final goal in the 2-0 win over Tottenham and w…- 53 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:30pm -

An investigation has been launched after reports of racist and abusive behaviour from Chelsea fans on a train to Manchester. British Transport Police said it was called to meet the train, which was travelling from London on Sunday night, as it enter…- 57 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:26pm -

The 23-year-old Briton, who spent two years with the Marussia F1 outfit, will make his debut for Nissan at the WEC opener at Silverstone on April 12. "I'm honoured to have been asked to join a manufacturer as prestigious as Nissan in a championship t…- 57 mins ago 2 Mar 15, 1:26pm -

A Panamanian player has hit out at Peru's soccer authorities for doing nothing to stop racism in the country after he walked off the pitch during a top-flight game after being subjected to abuse which he said was going unpunished. Juan Aurich striker…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:11pm -

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Suggestions that Chelsea effectively bagged two trophies on Sunday were presumptuous but they make the trip across town to West Ham United on Wednesday with a vice-like grip on the Premier League title race. Manch…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:07pm -

By Tony Jimenez LONDON (Reuters) - Jose Mourinho clearly saw Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen as Tottenham Hotspur's two chief League Cup final weapons and the way the pair were subdued played a key role in Chelsea's 2-0 Wembley triumph. Chelsea fans…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:07pm -

By Martyn Herman LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) - Suggestions that Chelsea effectively bagged two trophies on Sunday were presumptuous but they make the trip across town to West Ham United on Wednesday with a vice-like grip on the Premier League title rac…- 1 hour ago 2 Mar 15, 1:03pm -

Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher's teenage son is following in his father's racing footsteps after moving up to Formula 4 from kart this year, his new team said on Monday. Mick Schumacher, whose father -- a seven-time F1 champion -- suf…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:48pm -

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was proud of his team's "mentally united response" after their Champions League defeat to Monaco, with his team beating Everton 2-0 on 1 March. Olivier Giroud and Tomas Rosicky got the goals to get the Gunners back on t…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:35pm -

England coach Stuart Lancaster has said he believes England can still win the Six Nations despite losing to Ireland. Fixtures against Scotland and France complete England's Six Nations campaign, and head coach Lancaster insists they are still capabl…- 2 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 12:10pm -

Angel Di Maria is a great player and will rediscover his best form for Manchester United after enduring a difficult time of late, captain Wayne Rooney said. The 27-year-old Argentine has done little to justify the British record transfer fee of 59.7…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:40am -

Angel Di Maria is a great player and will rediscover his best form for Manchester United after enduring a difficult time of late, captain Wayne Rooney said. The 27-year-old Argentine has done little to justify the British record transfer fee of 59.7…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:33am -

By Iain Rogers MADRID (Reuters) - Villarreal have proved they can go toe to toe with Spain's elite this season but the team known as the 'Yellow Submarine' will need something special to get past Barcelona in Wednesday's King's Cup semi-finals. Barc…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:26am -

Japan's Kei Nishikori broke into the top four of the ATP world rankings on Monday as the Asian trailblazer continued to shake up the top echelon of men's tennis. His run to the final in Acapulco, where he was beaten by Spain's David Ferrer, elevated…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:11am -

By Iain Rogers MADRID, March 2 (Reuters) - Villarreal have proved they can go toe to toe with Spain's elite this season but the team known as the 'Yellow Submarine' will need something special to get past Barcelona in Wednesday's King's Cup semi-fina…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:08am -

Japan's Kei Nishikori broke into the top four of the ATP world rankings on Monday as the Asian trailblazer continued to shake up the top echelon of men's tennis. His run to the final in Acapulco, where he was beaten by Spain's David Ferrer, elevated…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:07am -

Former International Cricket Council (ICC) chief Jagmohan Dalmiya returned to head the world's most powerful cricket board on Monday following his unopposed election as president of the Indian board. Dalmiya will succeed ICC chairman N Srinivasan wh…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 11:00am -

England may have been utterly humiliated in their second World Cup pool match against co-hosts New Zealand but Sunday's nine-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka was much more damaging, according to former England captain Mike Atherton. Tim Southee claimed 7-…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 10:59am -

Former International Cricket Council (ICC) chief Jagmohan Dalmiya returned to head the world's most powerful cricket board on Monday following his unopposed election as president of the Indian board. Dalmiya will succeed ICC chairman N Srinivasan who…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 10:57am -

By Michael Hann LONDON (Reuters) - If you were to ask Premier League fans which attacking players they would like their clubs to sign given a limitless budget, the likes of Manchester City's Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko and David Silva would be at the…- 3 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 10:54am -

Real Madrid's draw at home to Villarreal in La Liga on Sunday not only cut their lead over second-placed Barcelona to two points but also means the 'Clasico' in three weeks time is likely to have added piquancy. If the gap stays the same, as is like…- 4 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 10:16am -

German center Christian Welp, who won the European championship with Germany and also played in the NBA, has died of heart failure aged 51, the University of Washington said on Monday. He also played for the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spur…- 4 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 10:07am -

Chelsea boss, Jose Mourinho hailed the team's Capital One Cup victory of Tottenham as a "perfect day". John Terry put the Blues ahead just before half time, with an own goal from Spurs' Kyle Walker making it 2-0. You have Petr Cech, John Terry, Didi…- 5 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 9:34am -

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a warm welcome to Prince William on Monday as he began the first visit to the mainland by a member of the British royal family in almost three decades, setting aside rancour with…- 5 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 9:13am -

Jose Mourinho has been quick to turn his attention to Premier League matters after Chelsea's Capital One Cup final victory. Mourinho revealed he banned television from the team's hotel and bus journey to Wembley, with main title rivals Manchester Ci…- 5 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 8:54am -

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Ian Poulter twice hit into water on the sixth hole, including his shot from the fifth tee. There was a three-shot swing on one hole, a two-shot swing on another. That was just the final hour of the Honda Classic on…- 6 hours ago 2 Mar 15, 8:09am -